"Actor: Rob Machado"

• Robocop 3 | DVD | (24/01/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Early on in Robocop 3, an action figure of our metal hero on the nightstand in a little girl's room informs us that he's now become a children's toy. The image is right on the money; despite following up two of the most violent, hilarious sci-fi/action films ever made, Robocop 3 is strictly for the kiddies. It's not just that the gore has been toned down considerably to make for a PG-13 rating; also excised is the straight-faced portrait of a world run by corporate fascism. When evil corporation OCP, and its even more evil Japanese parent company, plan to raze a Detroit neighbourhood to put up the shining new Delta City, the residents (including the aforementioned adolescent, who conveniently happens to be a computer expert) gang up to fight back, just like the angry neighbours in Death Wish V. Robocop (played this time out by Robert John Burke, Peter Weller having wisely passed) could be a hindrance to the companies' plans, so a ninja android is sent in to deal with him. Even all this could have been enjoyable, in a campy sort of way, but nothing pays off as either comedy or action--tellingly, the two big showdowns with the ninja start exhilaratingly (Robocop's clunky movements hilariously counterpoised by the android's acrobatic leaps), only to end just when they're getting good. Director Fred Dekker has some nice stylistic touches scattered about, but not nearly enough to save the film. One high note, though: the animated "Johnny Rehab" spot may be the funniest ad in the whole series. --Bruce Reid, Amazon.com

• Alamar | DVD | (28/02/2011) from £8.98   |  Saving you £7.01 (43.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Jorge and Roberta have been separated for several years. They simply come from opposite worlds: he likes an uncomplicated life in the jungle, while she prefers a more urban existence.

• Jack Johnson - The September Sessions | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £9.98   |  Saving you £6.27 (71.90%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Jack Johnson's first break into the public music arena was when his composition 'Rodeo Clowns' was chosen to be G-ILove and Special Sauce's first single off their 1999 album 'Philadelphonic'. He had long been a huge figure in the surfing world having been born and raised in Hawaii. He fast became a renowned surfer and scored a pro contract with Quiksilver before he had left high school. His implicit creativity led him to study and graduate with a degree in film at Santa Barbara. This

• Step Into Liquid | DVD | (06/05/2004) from £12.13   |  Saving you £2.86 (19.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Dana Brown takes us from the terrifying monstrous waves of Oahu's North Shore to the Texas waters of the Gulf of Maxico to the shores of Ireland and Rapa Nui. Told through the voices of legends pros and everyday surfers alike this is not just a film for surfers but anyone with an appreciation for sport and an inkling of what it means to be 'stoked'. 'Drop-dead dazzlingly knockout beautiful. This movie will grab you' - Peter Travers : Rolling Stone

• Who Killed Pixote? | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In 1980 impoverished working-class child actor Fernando Ramos da Silva was chosen from 1300 other boys to play the lead role in Hector Babenco's Pixote a film that showed the plight of Rio De Janerio's street urchins forced into criminal lives. The film earned great acclaim and Ramos da Silva received fame and fortune. Unfortunately fate and the rigidity of Brazil's social system had other more tragic plans...

• Jack Johnson - Thicker Than Water | DVD | (28/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Singer/songwriter Jack Johnson graduated from college with a degree in film and then set out to capture the very images of his youth with a captivating portrait of the surfing life he'd fallen in love with as a kid. The result was Thicker Than Water this award winning film won the hearts of surfers worldwide. But the timeless images and underlying message of togetherness resonated way beyond the endemic audience much the way Jack Johnson's music does today. Thicker Than Water wo

• A Broke Down Melody | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £18.98   |  Saving you £-3.99 (-26.60%)   |  RRP £14.99

  In the spirit of the traditional surf film format A Brokedown Melody tells the story of the surfer's journey by combining surfing footage music and commentary and weaving it together with the colorful imagery collected from destinations around the globe. Featured is the surfing of Jack Johnson Kelly Slater Tom Curren Gerry Lopez the Malloys Rob Machado CJ Hobgood and others.